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Association between response rates and monetary incentives in sample study: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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BMJ Publishing Group
, 2020 , Article)
To investigate the effect of monetary incentive and the dose-response relationship of participants' response rates in surveys. Three databases were searched for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that investigated the ...
Laplace approximation, penalized quasi-likelihood, and adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature for generalized linear mixed models: Towards meta-analysis of binary outcome with sparse data
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BMC
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Author(s). Background: In meta-analyses of a binary outcome, double zero events in some studies cause a critical methodology problem. The generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) has been proposed as a valid ...
Arcsine-based transformations for meta-analysis of proportions: Pros, cons, and alternatives
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Wiley Open Access
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Authors. Health Science Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Meta-analyses have been increasingly used to synthesize proportions (eg, disease prevalence) from multiple studies in recent years. Arcsine-based ...
Protocols for meta-analysis of intervention safety seldom specified methods to deal with rare events
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article Review)
ObjectivesMeta-analyses of rare events often generate unstable results, and selective reporting of the results may mislead the health care decision. Developing a synthesis plan for rare events in protocol may help to ...
The Clinical Pharmacist-Led Consultation for Infectious Diseases in Guizhou Province, China: A Survey Among Hospital Pharmacies
(2020 , Article)
Background: As antimicrobial resistance became an increasing threat to global public health, Clinical Pharmacist-led Consultation (CPC) for Infectious Diseases (ID) was developed in China. We conducted a survey among ...
Aggregate in my way: Privacy-preserving data aggregation without trusted authority in ICN
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2020 , Article)
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is a novel future network architecture which in contrast to IP-based networks relies on content and its name. It separates the physical location of data from the discovery and forwarding ...
PPLS: a privacy-preserving location-sharing scheme in mobile online social networks
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Science in China Press
, 2020 , Article)
The recent proliferation of mobile devices has given rise to mobile online social networks (mOSNs), an emerging network paradigm that uses social networks as its main design element. As one of the most critical components ...
Acupuncture vs Noninsertive Sham Acupuncture in Aging Patients with Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Background: Acupuncture is commonly used to treat degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis in Asian countries. However, rigorous data regarding the efficacy and safety of acupuncture for aging patients are currently lacking. ...
Controversy and Debate: Questionable utility of the relative risk in clinical research: Paper 1: A call for change to practice
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Background and Objectives
In clinical trials, the relative risk or risk ratio (RR) is a mainstay of reporting of the effect magnitude for an intervention. The RR is the ratio of the probability of an outcome in an ...
Letter to the editor: From Min Gong et al: "Risk for infections during treatment with denosumab for osteoporosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis"
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Endocrine Society
, 2020 , Other)
To the editor: We read with great interest the systematic review by Diker-Cohen et al (1) about the risk of infection under the treatment of denosumab for osteoporosis. This is a well-conducted systematic review that ...